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Did your SERP ever dropped after blocking bots from SEO analysis company such as SemRuch or Ahrefs?

One of my site was being heavily crawled by bots from companies such as SemRuch, Majestic, Ahrefs and I am not a big fan of paying the hosting bills without getting something in return. The trade of with Google is perhaps not so fair but at least they give back something so I blocked the analytical bots making sure Google was white listed. Now after a couple of months or so I am experiencing a drop in SERP and visitors (not necessarily sells). I am wondering if SemRuch data is used by Google as a signal or if there is any other reasons such as increase of competition due to lockdown and remote work shaking the web. Thank you for sharing your experience.

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